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Tottenham manager José Mourinho has reiterated how difficult it will be to win the Premier League title after his team briefly topped the table with a 1-0 win at West Brom.
Harry Kane’s 150th Premier League goal with two minutes remaining sent Spurs to the top for the first time since August 2014, despite the fact that they will likely be displaced when subsequent matches between Leicester and Wolves and Manchester City and Liverpool.
The Spurs are now undefeated from day one of the season and, with four consecutive road wins, they appear to be title contenders.
However, Mourinho is not making fun of how difficult it will be to win his fourth Premier League crown.
“When a team is champion or plays for the title, there is always a direct relationship with its direct opponents,” he said after winning a tight game at the Hawthorns. “I would say that this team could be champions in many European countries.
“The Premier League is the most difficult to be, because in the Premier League you can have a good season, you can have a lot of points, but in the end: Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Man United, Leicester, Arsenal. Then you can have a good one. season and not be champion.
“So what can we do? We go game after game. We try to win, we don’t care about the others.
“I promise you I’m not worried about Leicester v Wolves, or City v Liverpool. If Liverpool wins, it’s because City loses points. If Leicester wins, it’s because Wolves lost points.”
“So I don’t care, I just want the team to play game after game, and then at the end of the season, let’s see where we are.”
Having a forward like Kane in their ranks is sure to help Mourinho’s chances as the England captain scored his 13th goal of the season to go ninth on the all-time list of Premier League scorers.
Kane headed Matt Doherty’s cross in the 88th minute to continue his incredible start to the season.
“When you go to the statistics in relation to the forwards, I always say that the statistics should be how many goals a forward has scored and what he did for his team in the games in which he did not score,” he added.
And many of the strikers in history are going to show an incredible amount of goals that they score, plus zero.
“Harry Kane, you have to say he has so many goals, so many assists, this amount of balls recovered, this amount of duels won. This amount of balls that saved his team on a defensive play. This is Harry Kane. It’s goals plus this and this and this and that.
“For me it is not one more goal or one less goal, it is about what he is as a player.”
Kane wins it for the Spurs
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Spurs players will now go their separate ways for international duty, but Denmark midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg will be left behind.
With the UK government changing the quarantine laws in Denmark, Hojbjerg will miss home games against Sweden and Iceland before traveling to Belgium for a Nations League match.
“Pierre is in contact with his national team, obviously he wants to play for his team,” explained Mourinho. “Of course we want Pierre to come back and be fit to play and it seems we have found a situation that protects us and the player and allows him to play a game.
“The situation is simple. The first game is a friendly against Sweden, it does not go. The second game is in the League of Nations at home in Copenhagen, he is suspended because he got a yellow card against England so he does not go.
“The third game is Belgium-Denmark, so he stays with us and works with us and goes to Belgium, does what he wants and plays with the greatest pride for his team and then comes back. The situation suits everyone.”
West Brom was heartbroken to concede so late that they probably deserved a point for their performance.
The wait for his first comeback victory in the Premier League continues, but Slaven Bilic is not worried about his future.
“The players are not playing for me, they are playing for the club, it is silly to ask that question about my future,” he said.
“Not only the performance today, but also in general, I am doing my best and that shows enough for the club to succeed. I am not worried at all, I do not even think about those questions.
“But this game showed them everything, we have to make this our standard of being organized crazy, conscious crazy, if we play like this we will have a genuine chance of doing what we want to do in the league, which is to stay on top.” “
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